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…MEANWHILE, SMALL BUSINESSES FEAR BIG LOSSES By CAROLYN NARDIELLO
NYCity News Service
A few times a week, Joshua Bienstock loads his black, four-door Dodge Neon with a box full of binders, a power-point projector, a briefcase and a laptop.
He then drives his sedan, whose odometer has long clicked past 145,000 miles, from Queens into Manhattan to teach dispute resolution seminars and conduct labor-training classes for city union members.
The commute from Forest Hills that now takes him 25 minutes would take more than an hour and a half by mass transit, and with all those materials, “It would be virtually impossible,” he explained.
